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If you endure a crisis in your life, it may well challenge your faith. Perhaps
you will even respond bitterly to your gods and cry out: How could anything holy
permit this atrocity to happen to me? But gods are not our parents or
protectors. They are there only to inspire us to be better people. They
symbolize the inherent choice of this existence. It is secondary whether we
choose belief or defiance. What is precious is that we are always able to
choose.
Deng Ming-Dao, "365 Tao - Daily Meditations", #124